I disagree.

Maybe I'm being harsher on it in hindsight. As I said, season 2 made me throw up my hands and quit lost, and season 3 didn't. I do remember being really impatient with the flashbacks and I think there was a threat to kill Sawyer at one point which made me nearly roll my eyes out of their sockets. (Because I mean,…

That was the episode where I gave up on Lost. I was so pissed off that the show just squandered all these richly-drawn characters for shallow conflict's sake, and I was done.

Blowing the whistle on the serial killer fake in the fifth season? Kinda pivotal.

I disagree with the Seattle season being characterized as weak just because the winner came back from Last Chance Kitchen. I think that if Kristen hadn't obviously been the best, or one of the best chefs in the competition, it might have been different, but I thought a situation like hers, a really solid competitor…

If you laid all the girls of Vassar end to end, I wouldn't be surprised.

Come gather round children,
It's high time you learned
About a hero named Homer,
And a Devil named Burns.
We'll march till we drop,
The girls and the fellas.
We'll fight till the death
Or else fold like umbrellas.
So we'll march day and night
By the great cooling tower.

Yeah, but given how vilified Unions are in our society, how greatly they've been misrepresented to those who would most benefit from strong Labor in our country (at least, if you're American, like me), that they almost need to take things to a ridiculous degree to get people to sympathize with the idea of organizing. …

Okay, it's the start menu and not an "idle moment," but Civilization IV's "Baba Yetu" is perhaps the greatest song for invoking an entire game series. I remember the first time I fired that game up, I just knew the game itself was going to be outstanding, from the music they used to set the stage.

True.

Rewatching this first season finale reminded me of how special the characters of Jin and Sun at the beginning of this show. While the audience was force-fed the boring triangle of Jack, Kate and Sawyer (before the latter became compelling in his own right), the thoughtfully written, wonderfully acted Korean couple…

Dammit. I would have rather they'd brought this back and let Community die.

Todd, this may seem a strange sort of comment, but I would like to thank you for the use of one word: "Waste," when you wrote of the sense of waste of every casualty in Austria.

Remind me of some movie about
the babe!

They're both HIGH up there. "Stranger" is just a useless, useless episode. But Fire + Water was Lost in its most infuriatingly "let's make all our characters as unlikeable as possible" phase. Charlie kidnapping the baby of the woman he's in love with? Sorry, no.

Hey, I didn't even eat the mouse!

To add onto what Todd wrote about the psychological toll on the medics, it's always struck me as the height of injustice that, simply because it wasn't their job to carry rifles, medics and corpsmen were actually paid *less* than the standard GI's or Marine's wage. It was these guys job, when bullets were flying and…

Okay, I dropped this show like a hot potato after the first 3 or 4 episodes, but apparently… it's actually worth giving another shot? But I know it was still a laughing stock for months after I stopped watching it so… where should I pick up? I kinda really don't want to watch shitty episodes waiting for the good…

I got married a few months ago; my wife had never watched Friday Night Lights. I'm enjoying seeing her see it for the first time as we work our way through.

The fuck did they do?